Our wheat markets will be done.

[Klause]

News will break shortly or already has.


This will be like BSE or Triffid all over again

[farmaholic]

Got it through Weber's Newsletter

[farmaholic]

BoyScout Canadians....just shoot, shovel and shut-up! But no.....

[helmsdale]

Fack! Why and how?

[farmaholic]

Too early to panic

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Preharvest?

[grassfarmer]

Your good old friends Monsanto - always staunchly supported by the farmers of Agriville!

RR alfalfa is out and about too - has been for a few years just in case you think I may not be potentially negatively affected by this sort of action.

[Mjolnir]

Can somebody post what happened exactly?

[BreadWinner]

Just great, am I sensing the accidental finding of GMO wheat?

[BFW]

yup. If true gonna be feeding wheat

[WiltonRanch]

Press release said it was of unknown origin not belonging to anything Monsanto made. So who else was doing this? Aliens from out space? Maybe It was from Percy’s breeding program.

[Braveheart]

It's a non issue. Found in a ditch. None in commercial shipments.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

https://www.country-guide.ca/daily/roundup-ready-wheat-found-in-alberta


[UPDATED: June 14, 2018, 3:16 PM] Genetically modified (GM) wheat — which hasn’t been approved for commercial production in Canada — has been discovered in southern Alberta, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency has confirmed.

The wheat of unknown origin contains a genetic modification making it resistant to the non-selective herbicide glyphosate, CFIA told reporters today.

All the GM wheat plants discovered in a field ditch have been destroyed and CFIA will monitor the site for three years to ensure the wheat doesn’t show up again.

The CFIA made the announcement during a technical briefing today to discuss what it says is “an isolated finding of a plant product of biotechnology not permitted to be grown in Canada.” CFIA also noted there’s not food safety issue as the same trait has been approved for use in corn, soybeans and canola.

No GM wheat has been found in Canada’s commercial wheat system. That means the discovery should’t disrupt Canadian wheat exports.

That was the American experience. Genetically modified wheat is not approved there either, but since 2013 small amounts have been found growing in Washington state, Oregon and Montana.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has determined genetically modified wheat is safe for food and feed.

Although never commercialized in Canada or the U.S.,genetically modified wheat was grown in open test plots in both countries. It’s speculated protocols to confine the experimental wheat were not 100 per cent effective.

Monsanto worked with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada to develop genetically modified spring wheats suitable for production in Western Canada in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But as the GM wheats got closer to commercialization, opposition from farmers and the Canadian Wheat Board (CWB) increased. They feared consumer rejection of GM wheat would result in reduced wheat exports.

In 2004 Monsanto shelved plans to commercialize GM wheat in Canada and around the world.

“This decision was based on discussions with all of the relevant regulatory authorities, and we have mutually agreed that withdrawing the submissions is the appropriate course of action at this time,” Monsanto Canada said in a statement June 18, 2004.

“These actions are in keeping with our recent announcement to defer commercial development of Roundup Ready wheat until other biotechnology traits in wheat are introduced.”

Unapproved GM crops have disrupted markets in the past. StarLink corn is an example. Canada blocked entry of the crop in the fall of 2001.

CDC Triffid flax is another example. The GM flax was approved for commercial production in Canada in 2001, but deregistered to protect Canadian flax exports because importers had not approved it.

Canadian flax exports to EU, until then Canada’s biggest market, almost ground to halt in 2009 after trace amounts of Triffid were found in Canadian flax shipments to Germany.

After five years of purging Canadian flax of CDC Triffid, exports started to increase, but Canada hasn’t fully recaptured the more lucrative European food flax market.

[BreadWinner]

It was grown for several years just on the east side of saskatoon. Just a little chain link fence around it. Probably some spead from the chopper of combine through the fence.

[MBgrower]

So what now? Every load will need to be genetically tested, either we will be charged directly for this added expense, it will just go in the basis. I guess we will just have to eat it.